Spectrometer concept and design for X-ray astronomy using a blazed transmission grating

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6688, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Flanagan, Kathryn ^a   Ahn, Minseung ^a   Davis, John ^a   Heilmann, Ralf ^a   Huenemoerder, David ^a   Levine, Alan ^a   Marshall, Herman ^a   Prigozhin, Gregory ^a   Rasmussen, Andrew ^b   Ricker, George ^a   Schattenburg, Mark ^a   Schulz, Norbert ^a   Yong, Zhao ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

CCD; Constellation X; Grating; Spectroscopy; X ray

Indexed keywords

CONSTELLATION-X; TRANSMISSION GRATING; X RAY TRANSMISSION;

ASTRONOMY; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); REFLECTION; X RAYS;

SPECTROMETERS;

EID: 42249091191     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.739941     Document Type: Conference Paper

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